The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence

r, Clay and Jule drew out the two mysterious message

ut this lost channel p

ed. "There isn't a sign of a channel there. Instead, there's a great high ledge of rock crossing the peninsula, just where the line sho

drawn the line indicating the channel

is why the map should have been given to the wrong party. If a man had such a map in any way a

t way to me!"

the St. Lawrence river from the gulf to Lake Ontario. This t

e, yawned, and lo

asked. "It can't be possible that that little

d a dollar for every time he's been lost

eed. "However, we've got Captain Joe and

oe made his appearance. Teddy came shambling into the cabin and held

og out on de

n a moment with the information tha

since Alex and Case

dn't seem contented. All the time I was on deck he was wal

We won't see him again until they return. The

oposed. "We can't keep a single member of our happy family on t

pier, and far up the street a great arc light made the thoroughfare almost plain to the eye as day. The roar of night traffic in the city and the wa

of the immediate return of the boys, there came a quick jar, and

, passing to the cabin door which was op

x back. A crouching figure was now discernible on the prow, an

or an automatic which had been placed there. Then the boat swayed again, and there were three figures on

y whispered. "Shall we turn on the light

back, "they'll see us. At present, they un

ghts," Clay suggested, softly. "They're p

de upon some course of action. In the faint light, they seemed to be hulking, heav

decided, "to remain quiet for a short

hispered, "they inten

steal this boat," Clay responded, "but w

tealthily toward the cabin. The door was open, but all was dark inside.

le. "I'm tired of having the scum of t

e," Clay replied. "We'd better frighten them aw

emained dark. In some strange manner the intruders had disconnected the wires or broken the globe. T

almost in their faces. The lock rattled sharply under the assault of a muscular hand,

"Open up, or we'll break the door dow

rious," whispered Clay.

make the front of the cabin look like a

"and I wonder if one of us couldn't get out of the rear window, jump over

I'll stay here and talk to them until you

ng at the door had continued, and now something heavy, like a

ght prowlers shouted, "and we'll break

lights along the river front were fewer now, and the windows of the warehouses, illuminated an hour before, wer

. Clay did not know how far he would have to run to find one, so he decided to remain

Jule talking to the outlaws, and smiled as he l

heard Jule say, "you'll have to

llowed the remark, and blows which fairly s

ew shots over the heads of the ruffians, a figure dropped lightly on the deck at his

d. "They'll wreck the boat if we don't do something pretty

ction of the pier and clambered c

there if I were

he did so a round circle of light sprang up at the head of the pier, flashed toward the river for a moment, and died out. The next moment a

usually have their searchlights with them, and Case is always st

swung toward the boat. Clay crawled back through the window and approache

y the light. It seemed to Clay that the unwelcome visitors were now crouchin

a minute, and there'll be something pulled off here! If I'm not mis

hat," Jule declared. "What new deviltr

epeated. "The only wonder is that Captain J

't here," replie

the pier. There was a heavy thud on deck, and c

d Clay unlocking and opening the doo

r best energy to getting off the boat. There was a struggling, cursing, growling mass

st of the struggling mass! If the men had been frightened before, they were now wild with terror. It seemed to them as if the bear had

the outlaws finally succeeded in breaking away and springing to the pier. As they did so, they nearly f

ere up and away, clattering